Idol thoughts - week 3

This week our bottom 2 guys are Danny Noriega and Jason Castro. I don't believe for a second that Danny is going home, so our next least favorite is Chikezie. My top 2 didn't match David's top 2 this week (first time we've had 4 different singers in the top 2 between us!) but if you combine our numbers, David Hernandez and David Cook were our favorites.

Our bottom 2 girls are Kristy Lee Cook and Kady Malloy. After that, based on only last night's performance, Brooke White, but she's been really good other weeks. Overall Amanda Overmyer is still one of our least favorite girls. Our top 3 girls (since we didn't agree on the top 2) were Syesha Mercado, Asiah Epperson, and Ramiele Malubay.

Obviously I have no clue who will go home, so far we've been wrong more than we've been right! I am surprised by the lack of consistency of many of the singers. Week 1 we really didn't like David Archuletta (I knew he was a favorite though so I didn't really think he would go home). Jason Castro was one of our top 2 and now I think he's going home. Week 1 Kristy Lee Cook was one of our bottom, last week she was one of our top...now she's back at the bottom. I guess I don't have much of a life, to enjoy speculating about this show, huh?

Idol - after the results

I was shocked by the results last night. The guys did not surprise me at all. I liked Robbie Carrico and hate to see him gone - I think he at least brought a little something unique to the guys side of the competition. The girls though...I was stunned that Alaina Whitaker went home. I thought she was great. I didn't think she had a great performance this week, but last week she was my (and David's) #2 girl. So yeah, shocked, stunned, amazed...whatever you want to call it.

But ya know, I don't care enough to vote, so whatever! At least this week we were closer to "right" than last week...2 of our bottom 4 went home. I really want Danny Noriega to be gone - he just bugs me big time, but he has the V4TW (and yeah, I know that's not how they abbreviate it) crowd behind him, so I'm afraid we'll see him around for a while.

Idol thoughts - week 2

Once again, I'm going to post a little about what David & I thought about this week's Idol competitions. We were totally off base last week - none of the 4 that we thought were the worst went home, so maybe we're really out of touch with the people who actually vote! But here's our opinion this week.

Guys - Bottom 2:
Jason Yeagar
Danny Noriega

Since I don't think Danny Noriega will go home, I'll add that our 3rd worst guy based on this week only was Michael Johns. He was one of our top 2 last week, so if I base it on what we thought of both weeks combined, David Archuleta becomes our 3rd bottom. I don't think he's likely to go home either. Basically I guess it's a wide open week...I'm guessing Jason Yeagar and Luke Menard will be the 2 that actually go.

Just to have it out there, our top 2 guys this week were David Hernandez and Chikezie; if we take both weeks into account, our top 2 guys are Jason Castro and Chikezie.

Girls - Bottom 2:
Amanda Overmyer
Alexandrea Lushington

I should note that Alexandrea Lushington was in our top 6 girls last week, but we thought she was pretty bad last night. Our top 2 girls based on last night's performances were Brooke White and Kristy Lee Cook. (Kristy Lee Cook was one of "our" bottom 2 last week...they said she had the flu, so maybe she's really talented after all.) Overall our top 2 girls are Brooke White and Syesha Mercado.

I'm not sure if I mentioned it last week, but something about Brooke White really annoys me, so I didn't want to like her. I'm trying to be objective though and base it just on their performance, so she's come out on top because I've really thought she performed great.

Also, I'm not at all a good singer, I know I couldn't do what these people do (I would be one of the BAD auditions that they show in the audition weeks), I'm just someone who watches the show and figured it would give me something besides the kiddos to write about once a week. :) If you want to comment with your thoughts, I'd love to hear them.

I am curious, if you watch & vote, do you base your vote on who you genuinely think performed the best THAT week, or do you base it on more of a cumulative performance history? I don't vote, but when I think of who is good or bad from week to week, I don't forget the past...I try to remember "oh yeah, s/he was really good last week, maybe s/he is just having a bad night".

Idol...after the results

Ha! Boy was I wrong! David & I didn't have any of the people who left Idol last night in our "bottom 2" for the guys or girls. I am happy to say that at least they weren't in our "top 6" either! It will be interesting to see how our "top 6" changes from week to week. At least for now our top 12 are safe.

I will say that I don't like them splitting it evenly with guys & girls. There have been seasons in the past where I felt like there were more guys who deserved to be in the top 12 or girls...either way. Ultimately I don't guess it matters, since eventually the "bottom 6" guys (or girls) would be voted off anyway...if they were in the round of 24 or if they were all in the top 12, right?

This year I am somewhat unimpressed with the talent though. I don't think they have anywhere near as much talent as there has been in previous seasons, regardless of what the folks at Fox want us to believe. I'm really tired of hearing "our most talented top 24 ever)". I'm also a bit cynical about the people who have been in bands & recorded & released albums being in it. You can tell they are really trying to cover their asses about it now too, last night saying that if a singer wasn't trying to make it then they probably didn't deserve a chance. I just prefer the idea of them "discovering" an unknown, not "rediscovering" someone who failed.

My Idol opinions

I am planning to write a real post about this, but the kiddos aren't napping great today and I seem to be running out of time. Since I don't know if I'm going to have a chance to put all my thoughts on paper, I wanted to at least 'get it out there' with who I think should go home tonight. David & I almost always DVR things, so we don't watch real-time, and we never vote for singers, but we like to talk about them & decided to 'score' them this round. Here's a quick summary, I'll add more comments later if I have the time.

Bottom 2 guys:
Jason Yeager (12)
David Archuleta (11) - now I know he seems to be one of everyone's favorites, but neither of us liked him. Since I doubt very seriously he's going home, I'll say that our 3rd borrom is Danny Noriega (10).

We actually had the bottom 3 guys ranked exactly the same. Our top 2 guys, for reference, are:
Jason Castro (1)
Michael Johns (2)

We had these ranked the same also. Other than our top 2 & bottom 3, the middle of the pack was kind of mixed up for us - we did not agree exactly on the other 7 guys rankings.

Bottom 2 girls:
Amanda Overmyer (12)
Kristy Lee Cook (11)

Top 2 girls:
Syesha Mercado (1)
Alaina Whitaker (2)

We only agreed on the bottom 2 and top 2 girls, although I have to say about Amanda Overmyer that I really liked her in auditiona but thought she sucked last night. I really hope she sticks around though. David thought she was better than I did, but he still thought she was one of the worst 2.

These rankings are based ONLY on last night's performances, not any audition clips that we've seen.

Hopefully I can write more later...